Choose the Right Experience for Your Learners
Whether your goal is to reinforce foundational concepts, challenge students with complex decisions, or develop strategic thinking, Navigate Scenarios provide flexible, experiential learning tools that align to your course objectives.
Bring concepts to life. Deepen engagement.
Prepare students for real-world healthcare decisions.
Navigate Scenario: Branching Stories
Immerse students in cinematic, high-stakes healthcare scenarios where they take on the perspectives of multiple members of the care team. With true branching paths, each decision shapes the outcome—allowing learners to experience the consequences of their choices in realistic clinical environments.
Navigate Scenario: Guided Interaction
Guide students through realistic healthcare challenges using structured, interactive dialogue. In these scenarios, learners engage with multiple stakeholders across a hospital or care setting—navigating conversations, weighing competing priorities, and working toward resolving a central problem within a guided storyline.
Navigate Scenario: Strategy Simulation
Provide students with a game-based, experiential environment where they actively manage decisions, resources, and stakeholder dynamics within a hospital setting. In this simulation, learners navigate real-world constraints—balancing time, budget, and competing priorities to drive outcomes.
Courses/Topics
Navigate Scenarios give faculty three powerful ways to bring real-world healthcare decision-making into the classroom: guided interaction, immersive branching stories, and strategic simulation.
NEW! Navigate Scenario: Branching Stories
Navigate Scenario for Preventing Clinician Burnout and Depression
Immerses students in the real‑world mental health and work–life balance challenges faced by today’s health care professionals. Through a compelling, narrative‑driven experience, students gain practical insight into recognizing burnout, prioritizing well‑being, and seeking support when needed.
Using branching logic across five interconnected storylines, this interactive Scenario places students at decision points that influence outcomes for each character. Learners explore how choices related to self‑care, workload, and help‑seeking behaviors can profoundly impact both personal well‑being and patient care.
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Navigate Scenario for Preventing Harassment and Abusive Conduct
Immerses students in the real‑world interpersonal and professionalism challenges that can undermine teamwork and well‑being in health care settings. Through a compelling, narrative‑driven experience, learners gain practical insight into recognizing unprofessional behavior, responding appropriately, and fostering a culture of respect and accountability.
Using branching logic across multiple interconnected storylines, this interactive Scenario places learners at critical decision points where their choices shape outcomes for individuals, teams, and the broader organization. Students explore how power dynamics, leadership responsibilities, and bystander actions influence morale, safety, and collaboration in the workplace.
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Navigate Scenario for Preventing Hospital and Health Care Infection
Immerses students in the real world of infection prevention and control and encourages them recognize the shared responsibility required to achieve zero preventable healthcare‑associated infections (HAIs).
Through a compelling, narrative‑driven experience, students explore how everyday decisions made by health care professionals, leaders, patients, and family members can significantly influence safety outcomes. The Scenario emphasizes that preventing infection is not only a matter of clinical knowledge, but also of accountability, communication, and behavioral change.
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Health Care Delivery
The student assumes the role of a Health Care Operations consultant at a large Health Care system. In each episode, the student will progress through a series of different settings and character interactions that will teach them about key concepts in Health Care Delivery. The student will analyze information, make decisions, and see the impact of their participation in real time.
- Episode 1: The New System
- Episode 2: Financial Issues
- Episode 3: Customer Satisfaction
- Episode 4: Expansion
Health Policy
The student assumes various roles within the Health Care legislation process to develop and implement health care policy. In each episode, the student will progress through a series of different settings and character interactions that will teach them about key concepts in Health Policy.
- Episode 1: Policy Analysis and Development
- Episode 2: Going from Policy to Law
- Episode 3: Implementing Policy in the Health Care System
- Episode 4: Evaluation a Health Care Policy
Health Care Finance
The student assumes roles such as Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, and Board Member, and applies their knowledge of health care finance to make decisions that directly impact hospitals and patients, such as whether to relocate a hospital facility and whether to propose a bond to finance a major hospital renovation.
- Episode 1: Critical Case for Billing & Code
- Episode 2: Rates Negotiation Crisis
- Episode 3: Firm Financial Position or Not?
- Episode 4: To Move or Not to Move
Health Care Marketing
Recently Bright Road Health Care System has experienced a downward trend in its number of patients. The student assumes the role of a health care marketing consultant to work with different areas of the Health Care System to make marketing recommendations in the areas of differentiation, positioning, customer retention, and market responsiveness.
- Episode 1: Staying Relevant
- Episode 2: Patient Engagement
- Episode 3: Patient Satisfaction
- Episode 4: How Are We Doing?
Health Care Law
The student assumes the role of a new Health Care Administrator within the Bright Road Health Care System, where they will review legal cases and assess the Health Care System’s legal risks and liabilities. Bright Road’s General Counsel will act as the student’s mentor, helping them navigate difficult legal concepts.
- Episode 1: Hospital Nightmare
- Episode 2: Medication Errors
- Episode 3: The Wrong Body Part
- Episode 4: Failure to Obtain Consent
Health Care Ethics
The student assumes various roles within the Health Care System, where they will be presented with ethical dilemmas and various opposing viewpoints. In some cases, the “right” decision can be subjective, and the student will need to use ethical decision-making skills to defend their choice.
- Episode 1: Equipment Purchase
- Episode 2: Stockpiling
- Episode 3: Labor and Delivery Services
- Episode 4: Confidentiality
Health Care Human Resources
The student assumes roles such as HIM department manager, HR assistant, and manager of the Blood Bank/Immunology unit. The student will apply their knowledge of HR to make decisions that directly impact hospital employees, such as how to address the threat of impending budget cuts, how to handle a potential discrimination issue, and how to develop a strategy to increase staff morale.
- Episode 1: Overview: More Help Needed—Now!
- Episode 2: Understanding Employee Rights
- Episode 3: The Silent Group
- Episode 4: The Repeat Offender
Organizational Behavior
The student assumes the role of a newly promoted manager at a software company. In this new position, effectively handling office politics will play an important role in your success. In each episode, the student will progress through a series of different settings and character interactions that will teach them about key concepts in Organizational Behavior.
- Episode 1: Behavior Influences
- Episode 2: Group Development
- Episode 3: Teams and Team Building
- Episode 4: Leadership
What Students Gain from Guided Interaction Scenarios
Think like a health care leader. Students assume executive and advisory roles — CFO, Health Care Administrator, Marketing Consultant, Policy Intern — and make the kinds of strategic, high-stakes decisions that define careers at the top of the field.
Navigate complexity in real time. Each episode places students inside an unfolding challenge — a billing crisis, a negligence case, an ethical dilemma, a staffing conflict — where they must analyze information, weigh competing priorities, and act with incomplete information, just like professionals do.
See how the whole system connects. Across eight topic areas spanning finance, law, ethics, HR, marketing, policy, operations, and organizational behavior, students build a connected understanding of health care that goes far beyond any single course or discipline.
Engage real characters, not just case studies. Students interact with a full cast of colleagues, executives, patients, and stakeholders — learning to read relationships, navigate organizational dynamics, and communicate across roles and levels of authority.
Develop judgment that transfers. Because outcomes are visible and immediate, students don't just learn what the right answer is — they learn why it matters, building the professional instincts and ethical reasoning that hold up in the real world.
Navigate Scenario: Strategy Simulation
Health Care Change Management
The student assumes the role of the Director of Social Services at the Bright Road Health Care System and is charged with implementing the EmPath model for psychiatric patient boarding to resolve an issue within the Emergency Department. They must build a team and implement the change through a selection of 40 different decisions, each with an associated time, cost, and stakeholder buy-in.
- Part 1: The Situation
- Part 2: The Stakeholders
- Part 3: The Change Management Team
- Part 4: Implement Change
What Students Gain from the Strategy Simulation Scenario
Lead a real initiative. Students step into the role of incoming Director of Social Services and own a high-stakes organizational mandate — from building a team to driving system-wide change — start to finish.
Feel the weight of real constraints. A $100,000 budget, 25-week timeline, and 65% stakeholder buy-in threshold force the kind of hard trade-offs that define leadership in the real world.
Develop political intelligence. Mapping 12 stakeholders across four influence categories — Supporters, Encouragers, Observers, and Resistors — builds the relationship strategy and situational awareness that no lecture can replicate.
See every decision land. Cost, time, and stakeholder buy-in update in real time across 40 consequential choices, giving students immediate, unambiguous feedback on whether their instincts are right.
Apply a proven framework under pressure. The 8-step Change Management Model isn't introduced as theory — students use it live, making it a skill they'll carry into their careers, not a concept they'll forget after the exam.
Master the skill employers say new grads lack most. Managing resistance, building coalitions, and achieving buy-in across a hospital and community prepares students for the messy, human side of organizational transformation.
Learn more about the Guided Interaction Navigate Scenarios, virtual simulations that are designed to prepare students for success in the real world of health care management and administration. After a quick overview and a demonstration of a Navigate Scenario, three instructors explain how they are successfully integrating Navigate Scenarios into their virtual or in person health care management courses.
View this webinar for a walkthrough of Navigate Scenario: Health Care Change Management — a screen-based strategy simulation designed to help students apply change management principles in a realistic hospital setting. After a demo of this simulation, the presenters provide insights on how they use the simulation in different learning environments and discuss their student outcomes and feedback.
For Institutions/Faculty
- Provide an impactful learning experience that can be easily integrated to your existing curriculum and delivered online, on ground, or hybrid.
- Assess student engagement with written assignments such as a recommendation or proposal included in several of the Guided Interaction courses. Additionally, multiple choice quizzes (20-40 questions per course) are included with all Guided Interaction and Branching Stories courses. The quizzes are provided in a secure, instructor-only package and can be assigned at the instructor’s discretion.
- Access valuable teaching resources designed to help you seamlessly integrate these scenarios into your course. Each product includes a comprehensive Instructor’s Manual.
For Students
- Easily access content anytime, day or night, throughout the year, and from anywhere in the world. Students have the flexibility to access sessions according to their own schedule, learn at their own pace, and revisit the material as many times as necessary.
- Prepare for real-world challenges in the high demand healthcare field. Practice critical thinking and communication skills and apply classroom knowledge to industry specific situations.
- Gain the advantage with this first-of-its-kind learning environment that puts you in the role of the decision-maker.
FAQs
Each Scenario product set is priced at $49.95 as a standalone product, or +$15 when bundled with a Jones & Bartlett Learning text.
No. Students may take as much time as they need to complete the episodes.
Qualified instructors may request 30-day, complimentary access to any Navigate Scenario product set. Please contact your Account Manager to learn more.
We offer three (3) types of interactive scenario products:
Navigate Scenario: Guided Interaction
Work through realistic healthcare challenges by engaging in interactive conversations with multiple stakeholders across a hospital or care setting. As learners navigate dialogue choices, they gather perspectives, respond to competing priorities, and practice resolving a central problem within a guided storyline.
Navigate Scenario: Branching Stories
Step into immersive, cinematic healthcare scenarios where learners take on the perspectives of multiple roles across the care team. With true branching paths, each decision shapes the outcome—allowing learners to experience how choices impact patients, colleagues, and operations in high-stakes clinical environments.
Navigate Scenario: Strategy Simulation
Engage in a strategic, game-based experience set within a hospital environment, where learners manage decisions, resources, and stakeholder dynamics. This interactive simulation challenges users to navigate real-world healthcare constraints—balancing time, budget, and team priorities to achieve successful outcomes.
Navigate Scenario: Guided Interaction — 45-90 minutes per episode depending on the student. These Scenarios contain 4 episodes each so plan on a total of 2-6 hours to complete the full suite. This is ideally assigned as 4 different homework assignments across 4 weeks.
Navigate Scenario: Branching Stories — 1-3 hours per Scenario product.
Navigate Scenario: Strategy Simulation — Currently only one offering (Change Management) which is a single episode project that takes 2-3 hours to complete.
Yes, Preventing Harassment and Abusive Conduct in Health Care and Preventing Clinician Burnout and Depression are both CEU Approved (2 hour/AAFP Credit System Approved).
Yes. Navigate Scenarios can be integrated via LTI. Please contact your Account Manager to learn more.
The Navigate Scenarios are suitable for online, on-ground, and hybrid courses.
The Scenarios provide unique content not offered in any single Jones & Bartlett Learning text. However, they serve as an excellent complement to several of our textbook offerings. Please contact your Account Manager for recommended pairings with Jones & Bartlett Learning texts.
Yes. As your student moves through each scene, their progress is saved so that if they close their browser window or log out, they can resume the episode where they left off. Students can also jump between scenes by using the menu at the top left of the window.
Yes. Each Scenario product is accompanied by a unique instructor support material which includes a Test Bank. All assessments/assignments are assigned at the instructor’s discretion. Please contact your Account Manager for access to the instructor support materials.
No, they are not. If a student wishes to work on a written assessment over multiple sessions, they can compose their answers on their local device, then add it to the text field in the episode.
It is free for students and faculty alike to create an Account at www.jblearning.com.
We offer 12 Navigate Scenario simulations as follows:
Navigate Scenario: Guided Interaction — 8 case scenarios, each with 4 episodes covering the following topics:
- Healthcare Delivery
- Healthcare Ethics
- Healthcare Finance
- Healthcare Human Resources
- Health Policy
- Healthcare Marketing
- Healthcare Law
- Organizational Behavior
Navigate Scenario: Branching Stories — These three scenarios follow different storylines from the perspective of 4-6 characters and cover the following topics
- Harassment and Abusive Conduct in the Health Care Workplace
- Clinician Burnout and Depression
- Preventing Hospital-Acquired Infection
Navigate Scenario: Strategy Simulation — One scenario on Change Management in Health Care, which is a single episode project that could be used in the following courses:
- Healthcare Management or Leadership
- Organizational Behavior in Health Care
- Change Management in Health Care
- Operations Management
We are exploring different topic areas. Please contact your Account Manager to provide feedback on additional topic areas that would be of value to you and your students at your institution.
While all the Navigate Scenarios take place in a clinical health care setting (a hospital), most focus on business-oriented (finance, ethics, law, etc), or HR related topics such as sexual harassment or burnout. The Scenario covering hospital-acquired infections is the most clinically oriented. Students take the perspectives of and interact with many different role types within the hospital setting, both clinical and nonclinical.
They are suitable for use at both the undergraduate and graduate level.
Yes. Each product is accompanied by a unique Instructor’s Manual.
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Getting Started is easy
- Choose the Navigate Scenarios that best suit your course needs whether to simplify difficult topic areas, add an experiential learning component, and/or increase student engagement.
- Contact your Account Manager where you will learn how you and your students will interact with the Navigate Scenarios.
- Work with your Account Manager to order your Navigate Scenarios. Contact your Account Manager today.
- Integrate the Navigate Scenarios into your current lesson plan as homework, an in-class activity, or an exercise to reinforce difficult conceptual topics.